Christmas Q&A with Dianne Reeves

Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves brings music from her 2004 holiday album, ‘Christmas Time is Here,’ to the Touhill on Friday. Her last album was the Grammy-winning ‘Beautiful Life’ (2014). A new live album is coming in 2017.

What can we expect from your Christmas show? Warm stories, comfort, memories, a lot of Christmas music and lots of other music. It will be a celebration with friends. It’s light, and it’s sometimes funny. What was your approach in recording the album? Everybody approaches them in a different way. I’m coming from a jazz foundation, and that’s the way we did it, and different friends came in (including St. Louis’ Peter Martin on piano). We all put our personalities into it.